zimbabwe

Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing provides a fictional account of her parent's experiences during World War I, when her father was a farmer turned soldier who lost a leg, and her mother was a nurse stationed at Royal Free Hospital; and also describes their relationship after the close of the Great War, based on the real-life memories of the author.

Recounts Nigel Hough's experiences as one of the few remaining white farmers in the war-torn country of Zimbabwe, describing how his life differed from that of his family's much-loved nanny, Aqui.

Alexandra Fuller chronicles the experiences she has while growing up on several farms in southern and central Africa from 1972 to 1990.

The interracial friendship between Blessing and Evan, two boys growing up in a Methodist mission in Southern Rhodesia in the 1960s, is put to the test when a local white farmer is murdered by a group of African independence fighters, and officials at Evan's all-white school begin training the students to take up arms against the Africans.

Presents a collection of traditional folktales from Zimbabwe and Botswana about loyalty and greed, jealousy, ambition, and love, as well as the importance of values within the community.

In 2194 in Zimbabwe, General Matsika's three children are kidnapped and put to work in a plastic mine while three mutant detectives use their special powers to search for them.